Since Hebrew is NOT representable in ANSI, the second PDF in question has
been created in such a way as to prevent text extraction. There is
nothing you can do (short of OCR).
Leonard
On 5/13/13 1:40 PM, "ser...@mof.gov.il" <ser...@mof.gov.il> wrote:
>
>I try to read 2 pdf files with pdfreader. The pdf files contains hebrew
>characters.
>The encoding in one file is identity-h and in the other is ANSI.
>When the encoding is identify-h the hebrew characters are displayed in the
>console and printed in a txt file correctly.
>When the encoding is ANSI the hebrew characters are displayed as "?" .
>The Java method used
>
> public static void loadPdfString(){
> FileWriter fileWriter = null;
> String INPUTFILE =
>"c:/Sergio/develop/conv_pdf/payslip.pdf";
>//Specifying the file location.
>// String INPUTFILE = "c:/Sergio
>/develop/conv_pdf/payslip2.PDF"; //Specifying the file location.
> try {
> File newTextFile = new File(
>"C:/Sergio/develop/conv_pdf/payslip_.txt");
> fileWriter = new FileWriter(newTextFile);
>
> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(INPUTFILE);
> int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
>
> String str=PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(reader, 1);
>//Extracting the content from a particular page.
>
> //Print to console
> System.out.println(str);
> System.out.println("------------------------------");
> //Print to file
> fileWriter.write(str);
> fileWriter.close();
> }
> catch (Exception e) {
> System.out.println(e);
> }
> }
>
>
>Can anyone help me?
>What is the best method to read hebrew characters?
>Thank you.
>Sergio
>
>
>
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